9/19/1936 The False-Face Murders

September 19, 1936.  On this day Detective Fiction Weekly served up the first third of "The False-Face Murders" by Judson Phillips.   You can read it here.  Phillips was better known for the mysteries he wrote later under the name Hugh Pentecost.  He scored more than 100 books in all. 

5/17/2003 Gary Phillips takes the Himes Award

May 17, 2003.  On this date Gary Phillips became the eighth winner of the Chester Himes Award for outstanding African-American mystery writers.  He is best known for his novels about private eye Ivan Monk.